She happened to have been at a book signing at the largest black bookstore in L.A. when the now-dead person - who wasn't then - James Simpson Lee Hastings Jr.

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"Ain't Gonna Let You Go" was hastily rearranged around a fuzzed-out John Lee Hooker riff because it "wasn't sounding tough enough, " says Ms. Raitt.

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Ms. Nassauer told Mr. Settje, 67, who was wearing three days of stubble, dusty Lee jeans and a yellowed T-shirt that had come unmoored from its collar.

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Lee-Chin himself hasn't done badly, either.

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As founder and chairman of Henderson Land, one of Hong Kong's largest real estate firms (the company doesn't have a chief executive), 70-year-old Lee owns some 64%of the company, or 1.1 billion shares.

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The web as we know it was famously invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, but it wasn't until a few years later -- 1993 to be precise -- that it'd truly be set free.

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"It will be a hard-fought contest against England but they definitely don't have the X factor they did when Johnson and Lee were playing, " he said.

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Cashman reached out to the two-time All Star to plant the seed and gauge Lee's thoughts and didn't rule out Lee joining the team.

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Yet many others first learned of him after Tuesday, when a man -- whom authorities haven't identified, but neighbors and news outlets say is 65-year-old retired truck driver and Vietnam veteran Jimmy Lee Dykes -- approached his bus in Midland City.

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